Go ahead and upgrade and jailbreak.

Aiseh. Now my iPhone 4 I gave to my wife oledi. I'm using the 4s now so currently waiting for the jailbreak.

Ohhh crap. Most likely it's a locked set and when you upgrade to iOS5.0.1, the baseband was upgraded and the set is now unlockable. Even Gevey will not be able to unlock the set because they have not come out with a compatible Gevey.

You will have to wait until a compatible Gevey is out.

There is no JB for the 4s as of now. pod2g and the dev team are still working on it.

The BB for 5.0 for the iPhone 4 are the same as the BB for 5.0.1 (IIANM). Both are running on 4.11.08 for 5.0 and 5.0.1

Whatever it is, 5.1 is coming really really soon. Modmyi is giving a 1-2 days timeline for the new firmware to drop .... sh!t, I need to update the last remaining iPad 2 I have from 4.3.3 to 5.0.1 soon.

All my iPhones are already on 5.0.1 so we're good to go there.

I'm talking about the Official iOS5.1 from Apple that is dropping in 1-2 days (that's what Modmyi suspects), not the jailbreak. The iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak I believe will drop AFTER 5.1 is released locking a lot of peeps who have not upgraded to 5.0.1 out (this is especially true for the iPad 2, for the iPhone 4, if you're still not on iOS 5.0.1, you'd better do it soon as in NOW.)

That's true, just like the jailbreak news

It's on 5.1 beta 3 (which was released 5 days ago and maybe the GM version will be out soon. Beta 3 has closed the corona exploit by the way so for sure once 5.1 is out, whatever pod2g is doing for the 5.0.1 will not work for 5.1 ....

1) No. The iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak via redsn0w is a fully untethered jailbreak so you will not need to know whether the 3Gs is an old bootrom or new. Since you are stuck in the Apple Loop (Lesson learned, don't do the Erase All Content and Reset Settings if your phone is jailbroken because the jailbreaking process moves some system files around thus causing the loop issue), you just need to put your 3Gs in DFU mode and restore the phone using stock firmware

2. Wait wait wait .... let me get this clear. Are you using a factory unlocked version of the 3Gs or a locked set (i.e. it requires ultrasn0w to enable you to use the simcard "around here"). If it is a locked set, forget what I said about using stock firmware, you need to download the stock firmware and create a custom firmware via redsn0w to preserve your baseband.

To enter PwnDFU mode, plug it in and try to turn it off (how do you do that if the phone is in the Apple Loop?), if not possible, just connect and try and put it in DFU mode (3 seconds power button, 10 seconds home button without releasing the power button, release power button and hold the home button for another 8-15 seconds or until you see resdn0w saying something like running jailbreak etc etc)

3) I don't understand?

In your case, it is better to be safe than sorry. it's better to do a custom firmware set up and then do a stock firmware update and see how it goes as long as you got it running and you can check whether yours is a locked set or a factory unlock set.

If you do a custom firmware set up then it will jailbreak your phone and preserve the baseband which will allow you to unlock your phone so you get a jailbreak and get to unlock your phone

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Added on January 15, 2012, 8:42 pmSorry took so long to reply as I was trying to use Siri dictation on my 4S

This post has been edited by azraeil: Jan 15 2012, 08:42 PM

I usually set it as a new phone then jailbreak and then restore my backup.

Cannot live without SBSettings. I hate having to click 4 times to switch off/on my cellular data.

I am on 4s and it's not jailbroken, my iPhone 4 is jailbroken on iOS 5.0.1 and I do not have any problem with it.

I'm locking the thread. Please continues the jailbreaking discussion in v3 of the thread.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2191903

See you all there